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[amd] screen-unblanking seems to flicker backlight on/off 8 times before display resumes

Bug #1667001 reported by Gerry Boland
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repowerd
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Bug Description

I've a Lenovo Flex 2-14D which has an AMD GPU. I'm using the free driver. I have unity8 installed.

If I let the screen blank, and hit a key to unblank, it takes about 5 seconds until screen turns on properly. During those 5 seconds, I see the display backlight turn on & off about 5 times, all the while with a black picture.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

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Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in mir:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in repowerd:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in mir (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in repowerd (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Oops, sorry Gerry. Didn't realize it was you :)

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Alexandros Frantzis (afrantzis) wrote :

Could you please attach /var/log/repowerd.log at the time of the issue.

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Gerry Boland (gerboland) wrote :

@alf:
http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/24053520/

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Gerry Boland (gerboland) wrote :

Ok, with Alexandros' help I've dug a bit more.

On my hardware, I tear everything down and just run
    sudo mir_demo_server_basic --arw-file
I can see clients ok.

I forked mir_demo_client_display_config to add extra bits:
https://code.launchpad.net/~gerboland/+git/display-configurator
which adds an "O" option to power off the display

When I run it, and hit "O", the display flickers 8 times and then stays off (mir_power_mode_off)

If I hit "P" to turn it on again, nothing happens (mir_power_mode_on). Applying the configuration appears to hang the client - I get no success or fail response from Mir.

If I kill the client, Mir re-activates the display (flickering 8 times)

Changed in mir:
status: Incomplete → New
Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
Changed in repowerd (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
summary: - [amd] screen-unblanking seems to flicker backlight on/off 5 times before
+ [amd] screen-unblanking seems to flicker backlight on/off 8 times before
display resumes
Changed in repowerd:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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Gerry Boland (gerboland) wrote :

One small warning message is printed during display on flicker:
http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/24053776/

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

That warning might indeed correlate with some flicker:

[2017-02-23 16:18:58.483124] <WARNING> mesa-kms: drmModeCrtcSetGamma failed: Invalid argument

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